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Israeli President Shimon Peres appears at the White House stake out position following a meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Abbas said Peres was a partner in peace with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin and lauded him for exerting great effort to make peace since the signing of the Oslo Accords, which he said were unwavering until the last moment of his life. (more...)

Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said in a statement that it had become the norm for their Western colleagues to arbitrarily designate a guilty party and invent the desired results. This week, the foreign ministry released radar data purporting to show that no missile was sacked at the plane from rebel-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine. (more...)

The rival Islamic militant group Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip from Abbas' forces in 2007, called on Abbas not to go to the funeral. President Obama (r.) offers a tissue to Chemi Peres (c.), son of former Israeli President Shimon Peres. (more...)

The FARC and their victims have staged emotional face-to-face reconciliations over recent days. Colombians are sick of war, even though many resent making concessions to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which some foreign powers had classed as a terrorist group. (more...)

Moments after the debate ended, Trump raised Bill Clinton's affairs unprompted, in response to a question about Hillary Clinton's performance. "She's an incompetent woman", he said . Giuliani, now on his third marriage, ripped Hillary Clinton on Monday night for staying with her husband despite his multiple affairs. That's up to him. (more...)

The "clean" short-term funding bill put forth by Senate Republican leaders also includes provisions to fight the Zika virus , fund research for opioid research and provide emergency relief for flood-ravaged Louisiana. Ten Democrats voted against the bill. "We need to make this right because the federal government, along with state and local government, made serious mistakes", Mr. (more...)

His arguments about crime and Afghanistan are wrong , but those are just garden-variety factual errors for Trump. Trump pressed forward with his pitch to African-American voters Wednesday afternoon during a rally in Toledo, Ohio - where he again described black lives in the USA in bleak terms. (more...)

Thousands lined Front Street outside the MacBride Museum of Yukon History early this morning, anxious for the arrival of the royals at around 9 a.m. WHITEHORSE-Prince William and Kate will spend the fifth day of their Canadian tour taking in the wild beauty of Yukon. (more...)

Netanyahu stressed that the relationship between the two countries is not only based on shared interests, but also on shared values, with the American people - whom he said support Israel as much now as ever - seeing their values represented by Israel. (more...)

The Duke and Duchess have had a whirlwind tour around Canada. Kate Middleton continues to wow on her Canadian tour. She feels that, "having another royal baby right now is not a very wise idea". As the Duchess looked around the building, she said: "Wow, that's wonderful". Prince William and his wife Kate were greeted by Captain Tony Anderson and Loren Hagerty, director of the Sail and Life Training Society. (more...)

USGS says that could mean a magnitude 7.0 or greater earthquake-more powerful than the 1994 Northridge Earthquake , which killed 72 people, injured 9,000, and caused $25 billion in damage. About 1,600 fires could spread across Southern California. The ShakeOut simulation says it's possible that hundreds of brick and concrete buildings could fall, and even a few fairly new high-rise steel buildings. (more...)

Since last week, following the collapse of the latest truce attempt brokered by the US and Moscow, Syrian and Russian aircraft have waged a major air campaign in rebel-held areas of Aleppo . Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken told USA lawmakers that President Barack Obama had asked staff to look at how Washington might respond. Russia's rift with the USA over Syria is growing after Moscow accused Washington of "de facto support for terrorists". (more...)

Clinton said she was eager to take on Trump in the upcoming second presidential debate on October 9, telling the audience: "I have no idea what he'll say the next time, but you know I will spend some time preparing for it". At events across the country since Monday, Clinton has taken to mocking Trump's debate performance, causing her supporters to laugh at the Republican nominee. (more...)

Parts of the country, especially the eastern tip and higher elevations, could get up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rain. Between 10 and 15 inches of rain are expected in Jamaica , according to the National Hurricane Center . Hurricane Felix killed some 150 people and left thousands homeless when it slammed the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua in September 2007. Jamaicans began clearing out store shelves as they stocked up emergency supplies and Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Friday ... (more...)

Just 31% said Clinton would be more likely to do so. Clinton did particularly well in the debate with voters under 30 in North Carolina. PPP also shows voters in all five states agreeing that Clinton won the first candidate debate, with millennials - a demographic with special strategic value to her - agreeing with that assessment most emphatically. (more...)

According to the FRA, New Jersey Transit's target implementation date is in 2018. "It wasn't a complete failure, but it wasn't reliable enough for our needs", said the employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of termination by NJ Transit . (more...)

Deputies say they were on-scene within seven minutes and the suspect was apprehended on the school grounds before 2:00pm. The teen's mother, Tiffney Osborne, said in a statement that the family "cannot express the devastation we feel at the loss of our beloved Jeff". (more...)

A protege of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding father and first prime minister, Peres served in parliament for almost half a century, held every major Cabinet post, including defense, finance and foreign affairs, and served three brief stints as prime minister. (more...)

You can call me anything". A number of Western and Philippine media sources reported Friday that Duterete had compared himself to the Nazi leader but, as was the case with his comments in early September when he was widely reported to have called Obama a "son-of-a-whore", the president has often been misinterpreted. (more...)

Shiv Sena leader Manisha Kayande said, "Salman Khan needs to be taught a lesson". The IMPPA took this step as they were unhappy about the fact that none of the Pakistani artists, India has so closely been associated with, have condemned the recent Uri attacks. (more...)